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Old 10-17-2020, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Kenswing View Post
The thing is there was almost instantly a mask shortage. My wife's a nurse and her hospital had a hard time staying supplied. There was almost nothing available to the general public.

You can mandate all you want but if supply can't keep up with demand it's pretty much an empty mandate.
All the more reason to maintain a “crew” monitoring and insuring we were prepared,

And

Acting very quickly as soon as we knew we had a problem....January.

And remember, the country did not send masks to China early on that were owned by the government, BUT, they did assist in shipping that material donated by American companies. Wonder if those companies had been told...oh never mind.